Hi I’ve set up a new ROCK on a NUC. I’m on a Roon remote on an iPhone trying to add my WD network server as a NAS drive (yes I know that WD isn’t a real NAS; I’m in the process of moving away from it).
I keep getting “Unexpected error”. I’ve tried all combinations of using the IP address (\\192.168.1.236\Public and smb://192.168.1.236/Public), the name (\\MyCloudPR2100.local\Public and smb://MyCloudPR2100.local/Public) and using no username and using “guest” as the username.
I’m running OS version 1.0 (build 227) and ROCK Version 1.8 (build 1021)
Note: this used to work. I used to have the Roon core on a Mac that uses this NAS just fine using guest as the username and the name MyCloudPR2100.local/Public. In the Settings->Storage for that core it said the storage was “\\MyCloudPR2100._smb._tcp.local\Public”.
Yes, it’s not very clear. What I do know is that on my old Mac core, it didn’t ask for any credentials. I’ll take your advice and try with setting credentials and using and see what happens.
The WD My Cloud is not a full-featured NAS device, but it can be supported by adding a folder in Roon’s settings and entering your credentials and the network path. It would look something like this:
smb://ip address/share/folder
So for example, it might look like this:
smb://10.0.1.2/music/Roon
This ensures that your share is always mounted by Roon, bypassing the OS X Finder altogether. If you don’t know your My Cloud IP address, you can find it in your My Cloud dashboard. Failing that, you can try these instructions for mounting your NAS as a startup item, just replace afp:// in the article with smb://
What Roon doesn’t tell you is that ROCK doesn’t do SMB2 out higher protocol. Once I changed the WD NAS to use SMB1, worked immediately. Hopefully someone who sees this will tell the Roon powers that be.
Here’s where the setting is. Go to Settings->Network:
